affordability of electricity services have fared under power sector reform programme that was pursued in the of State Orissa (India …Using India's National Sample Survey data on consumption expenditure by households this paper examines how access to … access to electricity for the bottom 60 percent of the population has remained almost stagnant and the burden of electricity …

This paper estimates the welfare impact of rural electrification in India using nationally representative household … reliability of electricity service. Gaining access to electricity combined with a reliable power supply is associated with a 17 … percent increase in income during the sample period, but gaining access to electricity alone is associated with only a 9 …